Manual scoreboards are replaced with PTI

PTI- Cricket viewers started occupying the trendy and low-priced East Stands at the Brabourne Stadium. But the stadium has no proper means to follow the progress of the game in the pre-lunch gathering of the third and final Test between India and Sri Lanka today.

Conducting a Test match after a 36-year-gap, the Cricket Club of India authorities seemed to have varnished over the significance of a manual scoreboard for the East Stand crowd’s benefit in the first sitting.

In reality, the only way to follow the growth of the game, for the East and North Stand crowd numbering around 2000 before lunch, was by leaning forward to the right or left and finding out the score from the electronic screen kept just in front of the previous Press Box at ground level. Also there was a manual scoreboard right behind the screen but due to some strange reason it was not operated.